Blake Cooper

Blake Cooper Career Stats

2010 – Named by Collegiate Baseball to third-team All-America squad … Earned first-team All-SEC honors … Went 13-2 in 20 starts with a 2.76 ERA and one complete game … Hurled 137.0 innings, allowed 52 runs, 42 earned on 111 hits with 39 walks and 126 strikeouts … Impressive final start in collegiate career, worked eight-plus innings and allowed just one run on three hits with 10 strikeouts and one walk in 7-1 win over UCLA in championship series at the College World Series (6/28) … Quality start and no-decision in 3-2 win over Oklahoma at the College World Series; allowed one run on four hits in 5.2 innings with six strikeouts and two walks (6/24) … Picked up win in 4-3 victory over Coastal Carolina at NCAA Super Regional (6/12); allowed three runs on six hits in seven innings with five strikeouts and three walks … Named to NCAA Regional All-Tournament Team … Improved to 11-1 on the year with win over The Citadel in the NCAA Regional (6/5); allowed four runs, all unearned, on six hits in 7.1 innings with career-high 12 strikeouts and three walks … No-decision in 3-1 loss to Auburn at SEC Tournament (5/27): worked 7.2 innings and allowed one run on eight hits with six strikeouts and no walks … Suffered his first loss of the year in a quality start in a 3-2 loss to Florida (5/20); allowed three runs on eight hits with three strikeouts and one walk … Improved to 10-0 on the year with seven innings of work in 3-2 win at Arkansas; allowed just two runs on three hits with seven strikeouts and two walks (5/14) … Improved to 9-0 with a win at Kentucky in 13-6 victory; allowed seven runs, three earned, on nine hits with three strikeouts and three walks (5/7) … No-decision in 9-7 win vs. Alabama; allowed four runs on 11 hits with three strikeouts and a walk in 6.1 innings of work (4/30) … Improved to 8-0 with win in 11-4 victory at Georgia (4/25); allowed four runs on seven hits with nine strikeouts and one walk … Named SEC Pitcher of the Week after hurling first career complete game shutout, a four-hitter with a career-high 10 strikeouts in 2-0 win vs. Ole Miss (4/16) … Earned sixth win of season at Vanderbilt in 3-2 victory (4/9); allowed just two runs, one earned, on two hits in 7.1 innings with three strikeouts and four walks … Improved to 5-0 with win vs. Mississippi State (4/2); allowed just two runs on six hits with seven strikeouts and a walk in the 10-2 victory … Earned win at Auburn with seven innings of work, allowed four runs on eight hits with five strikeouts and four walks in 11-5 victory (3/26) … Quality start in 4-2 win vs. Tennessee, allowed two runs, one earned, on four hits in 6.1 innings with season-high eight strikeouts and just two walks (3/19) … Picked up win in 8-4 victory over Brown (3/13); allowed two runs on two hits in six innings with six strikeouts and four walks … No-decision in start at Clemson (3/5), allowed three runs on seven hits with seven strikeouts and a walk … Started on Opening Day and earned win with five innings of work, allowed two runs on three hits with seven strikeouts in 10-3 victory over Duquesne (2/21) … Earned a victory in the 6-2 win over ECU (2/26), allowed just two runs on four hits while striking out four batters and walking two.

2009 – 2009 NCAA Regional All-Tournament Team … Earned win vs. East Carolina in NCAA Regional with complete game performance, allowed just two runs on 14 hits with six strikeouts in 12-2 victory over the Pirates … Quality start and a no-decision in 9-5 win over Alabama at SEC Tournament (5/20), allowed just five runs on seven hits in 6.2 innings of work with seven strikeouts and two walks … Worked two innings and earned win in a predetermined split in 6-1 victory over Georgia (5/16) … Worked seven innings and allowed just one run on five hits with five strikeouts in 15-6 win over Tennessee (5/10) … Pitched second complete game of season and earned win in 11-3 victory over Vanderbilt (5/3), allowed three runs on 12 hits with six strikeouts and no walks … Picked up win in 10-4 victory over Auburn (4/19), allowed four runs on seven hits with five strikeouts and five walks … No-decision in 7-4 loss vs. Arkansas (4/5), allowed four runs on eight hits in five-plus innings of work … Strong performance to pick up win and clinch series for Carolina at Kentucky (3/29); allowed just two runs on eight hits in complete game 4-2 victory … Earned win with 5.2 innings of work in 14-2 victory at College of Charleston (3/24), allowed just one run on five hits … Six scoreless innings allowing just two hits while striking out seven to pick up win in 15-0 victory at Furman (3/18) … Six scoreless innings allowing just two hits while striking out seven to pick up win in 6-0 victory over Duquesne (2/23).

2008 – Appeared and started 15 games as a sophomore … Posted a 5-6 record in 93.2 innings of work with a 3.94 ERA … Struck out 59 batters while walking 23 … Worked 8.1 innings and allowed four runs, one earned, on seven hits while finishing with a career-high nine strikeouts and no walks in 7-5 win over James Madison in NCAA Regional (6/1) … 2008 NCAA Regional All-Tournament team … Struck out eight batters in 4.1 innings of work in 7-5 loss vs. Vanderbilt at SEC Tournament … Earned SEC Pitcher of the Week honors following complete game six-hitter in 4-1 victory over Ole Miss (4/20) … Picked up win at Auburn in 7-6 victory; went 6.2 innings and allowed three runs on nine hits with three strikeouts and two walks (4/13) … Quality start vs. Kentucky as he allowed two runs, one earned, on seven hits in 6.2 innings of a 6-2 win over Wildcats (3/30) … Worked eight innings and allowed just three runs on three hits in 10-3 win over Mississippi State (3/23) … Pitched six scoreless innings and struck out six batters in 10-2 win over Duquesne (3/9) … Pitched six innings and allowed one run, unearned, on seven hits with three strikeouts to pick up victory in 5-1 win at Clemson (3/2).

2007 – Named to Collegiate Baseball Freshman All-America team … Appeared in 17 games with 11 starts compiling a 7-2 record with a 4.48 ERA in 60.1 innings pitched … Earned victory in 13-7 win at Tennessee; pitched six innings allowing six runs on 11 hits with four strikeouts (5/13) … Earned victory in 13-6 win vs. Kentucky; pitched 5.2 innings allowing four runs on five hits with five strikeouts (5/6) … Pitched 5.1 scoreless innings with just four hits allowed in 8-0 win over Wofford (4/17) … Earned fourth win of the season with career-high 7.2 innings of work and just two runs allowed on six hits in 8-2 victory vs. Vanderbilt (4/1) … Worked 5.2 scoreless innings in first career start to pick up win in 9-5 victory over LSU (3/18) … Earned first career win in first start with five innings of work and a career-high six strikeouts in 13-2 victory over Brown (3/11) … Also had a win vs. Appalachian State … Played in the summer with the Columbia Blowfish of the Coastal Plains League along with several Gamecock teammates.

HIGH SCHOOL – Played four seasons at Edisto High School under coach Hal Hayden … Played for the Pendleton Cardinals in summer ball … Earned all-region and all-state honors in football and baseball … Member of 2006 SC/NC Select All-Star team.

PERSONAL – Born Matthew Blake Cooper on 3/30/88 … Parents are Daniel and Tammy.